Granny rescued from NA blaze
A 62-year-old grandmother was rescued from her burning three-bedroom home around 2:10 pm yesterday as she was sleeping. She had to be treated at the New Amsterdam Hospital for burns to her hands and feet. When Stabroek News arrived at the scene within half an hour of the blaze, the woman, Tulsidai “Betty” Pooran was [...]
Police patrol service inadequate for Essequibo River
Patrolling the Essequibo River poses severe challenges for the Guyana Police Force. What is available is inadequate for effective patrols and investigations of issues in that area, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee said yesterday. In a written circulated response to a question posed by PNCR-IG Member of Parliament Mervyn Williams, Rohee said “… one can [...]
City Hall to crack down on street barbers, gamblers
The completion of the street naming exercise and removal of illegal barbers and gamblers from the streets were among matters discussed at the statutory meeting of the mayor and city councillors at City Hall on Tuesday. Mayor Hamilton Green pointed out that many streets in Georgetown were still not named even though a street naming [...]
$10M Customs House robbery case collapses
One year after testimony in the 2005 Customs House $10M armed robbery was halted, the prosecution yesterday announced that it was withdrawing the case against the two defendants as they could not contact their star witness. The last time evidence was taken in the matter was last year February and Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton who was [...]
Bacchus family vault broken into twice
- George’s corpse stolen, Shafeek’s casket ransacked In a bizarre incident that is believed to have occurred sometime between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, the burial-chamber bearing the remains of Shafeek Bacchus, and which had once held those of his brother George Bacchus was broken into. The nearly seven feet high structure, which is situated [...]
Rohee: No credible info on any resurfacing of phantoms
-slams Stabroek News story Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee says there is no credible information that there has been any re-emerging of the phantom gangs in Guyana. In a release from the Government Information Agency (GINA) yesterday, he criticized a report in Tuesday’s edition of Stabroek News which asked whether the ‘phantom’ death squad had [...]
Iwokrama in revolutionary carbon deal
-one million acres to be valued The Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development is to announce a revolutionary deal in New York today that will see a financial value being assigned to the climate services it provides. The UK’s Independent newspaper reported last night that the deal with Canopy Capital will be [...]
New proposal for DEA office here
A senior State Department official is to take to the US government, President Bharrat Jagdeo’s new proposal for the establishment of a permanent branch of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Guyana. . Asked whether the US had any intention of setting up a DEA office here, visiting Assistant Secretary of State for Western [...]
Will the new government in Pakistan bring stability?
Dear Editor, The election of a new Prime Minister and the impending formation of a new government in Pakistan is welcomed. But it is not certain that democratic change will bring stability to Pakistan or reduce that country’s ties with terrorists who have been wreaking havoc in that part of the world. The new proposed [...]
This group has ignored the opposing evidence on the issue of corporal punishment
Dear Editor, I refer to the recent letter by Vanda Radzik et al (SN 3/23/08) resuscitating the well-intentioned but clearly indefensible call to ban corporal punishment in Guyana. They use comments by a Minister of Education in Jamaica as an introduction to same.
An effective intelligence gathering agency is essential
Dear Editor, I had recused myself from the recent discussions on the crime situational approach by the government to address what it called a “joint operation” but rescind to contribute to the discussions since I feel there is no real strategic plan for its implementation. In my opinion the joint memorandum of agreement with the [...]
Until the security forces are perceived to deal with all criminal activities in an even-handed manner all plans will come to naught
Dear Editor, The much touted Citizens Security Programme has been finally inked and elements should be implemented shortly. While there has been much talk about this programme and its perceived benefits to Guyana and Guyanese, please permit me to point out two important ingredients to the successful implementation of any such programme to improve security [...]
Why a quote from Senator Obama in the ad?
Dear Editor, I had the fortune..or rather the misfortune of coming across a GT&T advertisement in your quarterly Guyana Review publication contained in the 25th March 2008 edition of the Stabroek News, and I was rather confused and surprised that the advertisement, had a much vaulted statement from a Senator no less, in the United [...]
The singing kite
Dear Editor, On Easter Monday I listened on NCN as one of the announcers explained the origin of the kite. What the person did not say and probably she does not know is that the singing engine kite is 100 per cent Guyanese. Yes Mr Editor, the singing kite was developed in British Guiana, just [...]
We give up too easily, we must use our imagination
Dear Editor, When any sane person is offered a basket to fetch water and recognises it very early but still accepts then the giver whom we accept as even more sane and concerned will expect that all the creative and imaginative skills to seal the basket ,freeze the water into ice and convey it to [...]